{"id":2058,"date":"2021-06-10T15:37:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T12:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2021-06-10T15:47:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T12:47:44","slug":"how-to-determine-openssl-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/how-to-determine-openssl-version\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Determine OpenSSL Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OpenSSL is a cryptography library that supports the <\/span><b>TLS protocol.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is used as part of the Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/ssl-certificates.html\"><b>SSL certificates<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on your web hosting server. Your <\/span><b>OpenSSL version<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will affect the algorithms and protocols supported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The instruction to display OpenSSL version is:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">openssl version<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You must run this instruction from the command line of your Operating System (OS). For<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/what-is-linux-hosting\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Linux, <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">open a terminal window using <\/span><b>the CTRL+ALT+T key combination<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. For Windows servers, open the search box and type CMD to access the command prompt.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenSSL is a cryptography library that supports the TLS protocol. It is used as part of the Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for SSL certificates on your web hosting server. Your OpenSSL version will affect the algorithms and protocols supported. The instruction to display OpenSSL version is: openssl version You must run this instruction from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-hosting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}